Shelter is a necessity of life and the building block of cities. Cities cannot be inclusive without affordable housing near transportation, jobs, and necessary public services like safety, health care, and education. Housing is the most important asset for the majority of households and anchors...

This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The most important goals of the housing policy have been to alleviate housing shortages and to...

This paper tests the dynamics implied by a supplied-constrained view of the relationship between market fundamentals and house prices in the case of Seoul's housing market. The view is that supply constraints have led to serious shortages in certain submarkets, and that these shortages have led...

This paper is a study of the dynamic relationship between residential land values and house prices. Little agreement exists regarding the direction of causality between house prices and residential land values. One could argue that causality is unidirectional, running from house prices to...